Global Private Bank Legal Entity Controller - Associate

As a Controller, you will maintain strong discipline and ensure financial statements are complete, accurate and done timely.

Global Private Bank Legal Entity Controller - Associate

Are you someone who has an interest in accounting and is looking to grow your career working in a globally diverse organization?

The Legal Entity Control team is responsible for financial oversight of their legal entity and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment exists as it relates to all businesses, products and operational areas that impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm.

As a Controller, you will maintain strong discipline and ensure financial statements are complete, accurate and done timely. You will ensure regulatory requirements are met, and adequate control environment is in place, and our entities stay well capitalized.

This role provides an opportunity to interact with multiple lines of business and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership end-to-end. 

The Associate will liaise with the line of business finance teams, operations and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity agenda. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Legal Entity accounting & control on a monthly basis that includes month-end close process, parent/child accounting, equity pick up, review of inter-entity breaks and unnatural general ledger balance monitoring

• Month-End analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, as well as Legal Entity and Line of Business financial commentary and regulatory reporting requirements

• Investigation, analysis and resolution of issues and respond to ad-hoc queries

• Monitoring of the G/L including variance analysis MoM/YoY and responding with commentary as needed

• Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts (automation) and other Controller initiatives as needed

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting or related business field

• 3+ years finance/accounting – related experience

• Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including ability to create concise and effective requirements documents and communication materials for technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong judgment, professional maturity, personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results-oriented, fact based, and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously; has the courage to ask the tough questions and challenge the status quo 
• Result-oriented, with a track record demonstrating a high level of personal initiative including setting and achieving challenging goals